FROZEN MEAT TRADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1939, Page 3

FROZEN MEAT TRADE

LONDON QUOTATIONS LAMB MARKET DEPRESSED. BEEF PRICES EASIER. Lamb market: Heavy stocks depressing market, but consumption satisfactory and expanding. Mutton market: Wethers and ewes, steady, with demand quiet. Beef market: Frozen beef, easier, owing to poor demand; chilled beef, weaker, on the excessive supplies. New Zealand porker pigs: Easier, owing to poor demand. New Zealand baconer pigs: Easier, owing to lower prices Continental bacon. Boneless bobby veal: Shade firmer on the better trade. The above report was received on Thursday by the Meat Board, which advises that the following are the ruling prices of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of frozen meat mentioned and are for representative parcels of the goods sold on Wednesday. Chilled beef prices are averages of the week. All prices are on the basis of delivered to Smithfield market. Prices for the previous week are shown in parentheses: — New Zealand sheep. —Crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes: 481 b and under, 4 7-8 d (4 7-8 d); 491 b to 561 b, 4d (4 l-8d); 571 b to 641 b, 33d (33d); 651 b to 721 b, 3|d (34). Ewes: 481 b and under, 3 3-8 d (3 3-8 d); 491 b to 561 b, 3d (3d); 571 b to 641 b, 2Jd (23d); 651 b to 721 b, 2‘d (23d). New Zealand Lambs. —Cantei4>ury: 361 b and under, 7d (7d); 371 b to 421 b, 6 5-8 d (63d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 3-8 d (6Jd); second quality, average about 31 lb, 6 5-8 d (63d). Other South Island: 361 b and under, 7d (7d); 371 b to 421 b, 6 5-8 d (63d); 431 b to 501 b, 6 3-8 d (6Jd). North Island Downs: 361 b and under, 7d (7d); 371 b to 421 b, 6 5-8 d (6.3 d 431 b to 501 b, 6 3-8 d (64d); second quality, average about 301 b, 6 7-8 d (6 7-8 d). North Island, first quality: 361 b and under, 63d (6 7-8 d); 371 b to 421 b, 6|d (6 5-8 d); second quality, average about 31 lb, 61d (6 5-8 d). Australian Lambs. —Victorian, first quality: 291 b to 361 b, 6d (6 l-8d); 371 b to 421 b, 53d (5 7-8 d). Argentine Lambs.—First quality: 361 b and under, 53d (53d); 371 b to 421 b, s’d (sjd). New Zealand Frozen Beef. —Second quality: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 7-8 d (4d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 23d (27-8 d Australian Frozen Beef. —Second quality: Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 3 7-8 d (3 7-8 d); ox crops, 3d (3d). New Zealand Porker Pigs. —First quality: 611 b to 801 b, 6 7-8 d (7d); 811 b to 801 b, 6 7-8 d (7d); 811 b to 1001 b, 6 5-8 d (6 5-8 d); 1011 b to 1201 b, 6 5-8 d (63d). New Zealand Baconer Pigs.—l2l lb to 1601 b, 63d (6 3-8 d). Boneless Bobby Veal.—Ex store, in parcels, 4 3-8 d (43 d). , New Zealand Chilled Beef. —Ox hinds, 1451 b to 2101 b, 4 3-8 d (4 5-8 d); ox fores, 1451 b to 2101 b, 27-8 d (3 3-8 d). Australian Chilled Beef. —Ox hinds, 43d (4Jd); ox crops, 3d (33d). South African Chilled Beef. —Ox hinds, 53d (53d); ox fores, 3 3-8 d (31d). Southern Rhodesian Chilled Beef. — Ox hinds, 4d (4d); ox fores, 23d (3d).

Argentine Chilled Beef—Ox hinds, 53d (6 l-8d); ox fores, 3 3-8 d (33d). Uruguayan Chilled Beef—Ox hinds, 43d (sd); ox fores, 33d (3Jd). Brazilian Chilled Beef—Ox hinds, 4 3-8 d (4 5-8 d).